Mr. Chair, first, I want to congratulate the Bloc Québécois critic on his text. One can see that the hon. member not only has a lot of depth, but also a lot of experience as an actor. It is always a pleasure to hear him.
There are two things here. Let us talk about cultural policy. The cultural policy is of course different, because we are in Canada, but it based somewhat on the same objectives as Quebec's cultural policy, in that it has three objectives. The first and most important one is to put the creator at the core of our concerns. The second one is to strengthen our Canadian identity. Finally, the third objective is to promote accessibility. We want to ensure that people not only appreciate what our creators do, but that they have access to their work.
Given these objectives, we have to work with what we have. What do we have here in Canada? We have extraordinary organizations and institutions. The cultural policy would therefore be based on institutions that are pillars, such as the CBC, the NAC, Telefilm, the NFB and all the museums. The idea is get all these key players at the table to develop this policy, again with these three objectives in mind.
It is also important to have an integrated cultural policy. Let me give an example. We talk about creators and also about the precarious situation of actors. This is the case all across Canada. Quebec has its own policy with its status of the artist act. We also have similar federal legislation, while provinces such as Ontario and Saskatchewan want to draft such an act. All this to say that when we have an integrated cultural policy and put creators at the core of our concerns, it is very easy for me to tell my colleague, the revenue minister that we made a government decision and that we have this cultural policy which provides, in the first of its three objectives, that creators are important. I would then ask the minister how to improve the status of the artist, which is so important to us, knowing that labour laws come under the jurisdiction of the provinces.
Since I come from Quebec, I also want to say that the Canadian cultural policy would be in harmony with those of the provinces, and not in conflict with them.